What bands have you seen live?

[WizardTrip]

OMG I totally forgot- you reminded me- we went to a Toby Mac concert many many moons ago!!!

There were several names there- but I couldn't tell you who for anything- Jars of Clay?? someone like that. 

 

Oh yeah....I forgot about some christian bands many years ago. I saw:

 

Jars of Clay

Burlap to Cashmere

Thousand Foot Krutch

Toby Mac

Skillet

[cianalas]

Loverboy

Little Feat

George Thorogood

Flogging Molly

Styx

Def Leppard

Journey

Poison

Foreigner

Cheap Trick (From Styx down to here were group tours, Def Leppard was at all of them)

Ted Nugent
Trans-Siberian Orchestra (three times, twice their Christmas tour, once their revamped Bethoven's Last Night)

Protomen (Queen cover album release w/ Tenacious D coming on for encore as well as a normal show)

Johnny Lang (twice)
Gaelic Storm (three times)
Seven Nations

Need Fire

Enter the Haggis
Carbon Leaf

Weird Al

And several more that I can't remember.  My city had a program where they'd hold free concerts to get business back downtown.

[dr3wcifer]

Here's all the big names I've seen that I can recall (chronologically ordered as much as possible):

 

A Perfect Circle

Cold, Staind, Godsmack

The Bangles

Kittie

Mindless Self Indulgence

Sonic Youth

Dope

Ayin

Baroness

Nonpoint, Drowning Pool

Foxy Shazam

Monster Truck, Pop Evil, Sevendust <---just last month. Why yes, it was quite awesome. Pop Evil was way better than I had expected.

[KAllen]

KISS-10x

Pantera- no telling how many times. They were a bar band when I was watching & partying w/ them.

Alice Cooper - 2x

Metallica - 2x

OzzY - 4x

Motley Crue - 2x

Selpatura

Type O Negative

W.A.S.P.

Cheap Trick - 2x

.38 Special - 4x

Lynyrd Skynyrd (Johnnie version)

Van Halen

Van Hagar (very first concert on 5150 tour btw)

Ted Nugent - 5x

Queensryche - 4x

Lillian Axe (once again multiple times as bar band)

Bon Jovi (opening band)

RATT-2x

Quiet Riot

Golden Earring

Anthrax

Cinderella

Poison -2x

Aerosmith

Helix

Jackyl

Godsmack

Stained

Loverboy

The Hooters

ZZ Top - 5x

Extreme

Mr. Big

Saliva(w/ Jessie) 2x

Deep Purple

Scorpions

Night Ranger -3x

Grim Reaper

Victory

George Strait (only went because I was promised and received sex)

Skid Row (non Bazz version)

BTO

L.A. Guns

Forever In Terror

David Lee Roth-2x

Rod Stewart

Winger

Malice

Needfire

Warrant

Bullet Boys

I'm sure there are more, but right now that's all I can think of.

[concretecavewoman]

Too many, but the highlights are:

 

The Aquabats: seen them at least 7 times.  Yeah, 90s ska, amazing show, rindonkulous and goofy.

Bob Dylan: about 10 years ago, he opened for Phil Lesh and didn't do anything too interpretive, unlike when I saw him last year and his show became more vaudevilian.

http://youtu.be/z95jsjKn5BU

Gogol Bordello: two years ago at the Showbox in Seattle.  That was a  3 hour party, just amazing energy.  Seeing them again next month!

 

 

And dozens and dozens of southern california punk and ska bands that were floating around in the 90s.

[Vector]

My first concert was KISS; my second was Queen

 

My cousin's step-dad used to get us into CBGBs. Saw The Ramones, Blondie, Talking Heads, The Cars, Television and some others there

 

Back in the 80s, my friends & I would go to The East Side Club on Chestnut Street in Philly. We saw Stray Cats, Black Flag, Dead Kennedys, even Duran Duran

 

Saw The Police in their legendary Grendel's Lair show, plus a few more times that they came around including the big Synchronicity Tour show at JFK [with Huey Lewis & Joan Jett, if you can imagine that (REM opened, but we skipped them)]

 

I saw a lot of shows at JFK

 

Lynyrd Skynyrd [before the plane crash, naturally] & Peter Frampton

Frampton & Yes [120K attendance]

The Stones w. Journey, J Geils & George Throrogood

The Who w. The Clash & Santana [their FIRST farewell tour] - I saw The Clash 3 times on the Combat Rock tour, plus a few times before that

Foreigner / The Kinks / Loverboy

 

Other than that, you could pretty much guess who else by simply cruising this listing

http://rememberthespectrum.com/300/Concerts.asp

Ah, someone else who's been around!

Way to many to list, but the best:

Also saw the Clash three times on that tour!

Dead Kennedy's

Toxic Reasons

TSOL

Live Skull

Motörhead

Ramones

Jim Carrol Band

Big Black

Wipers

Dead Moon

Hellacopters

Gluecifer

Monster Magnet

Thin White Rope

Swans

Sonic Youth

These Immortal Souls

The Cure

Kelly Joe Phelps

RL Burnside

Wovenhand

Jesse Sykes

Transmissionary Six

Screaming Trees

And on and on...

[girljen]

concretecavewoman, The Aquabats put on one of the best shows I've ever seen. 

 

I saw them at the Gothic in Englewood, CO.  Not only did they get the name of the town right (instead of just saying Denver, because Englewood is a suburb), they sang a silly little song at the end about Colorado that just melted my native Coloradan heart.  Because it was the Aquabats, it was ridiculous, and they did say we have mooses here (and then joked about what the plural of moose really is), but it was amazing.

 

And, they passed the Mile High Challenge:  They played well, and didn't have to take oxygen, for the whole show.  This is HUGE for a band with so much brass.  The trumpet player didn't attempt the higher octave in the solo in The Cat With Two Heads, but it was super impressive nonetheless.

 

I would love to see them again.  If only they'd play somewhere little tiny with no crowd...like maybe my living room.

[KAllen]

I remembered a few more:

 

Dokken

Steel Heart

Lynch Mob

Screaming Cheetah Willies

Dangerous Toys

Wrathchild America

Blue Murder

Rolling Stones

Living Color (the band not the crappy show)

[porchcricket13]

Most recent concerts in the last 3 years (recent to oldest):

 

Arty

Rabecca & Fiona

Avicii

Above & Beyond

Zedd & Porter Robinson

Nervo

Kaskade

12th Planet

Laidback Luke

Nero

Pretty Lights

Deadmau5

Empire of the Sun

Calvin Harris

Porter Robinson

Kaskade

Steve Aoki

Avicii

Disco Biscuits

G Love & Special Sauce

Vampire Weekend

Afrojack

 

Ive also seen Dave Matthews band over 10 times and No Doubt 4 times.

 

Have you been to holidaze? Seriously the most amazing festival I have been to. Went last year in mexico. 

 

Way too many to list. Bands/singer songwriters I have seen most? Phish, Umphreys McGee, and Ani Difranco. Other than that, many punk and ska shows, Pearl Jam, Apoptygma Berserk, Etc. 

 

Looking forward to Phish 3 nights in 2 weeks and a small local music festival in July. Possibly Ani again in November.

[wideeyed]

To be totally fair, I did not compile the list.  Ubergeek husband did.  This is what we do.  We go to concerts.  Because we're older and we can now afford to go see ALL. THE. BANDS.  Our tastes are a bit eclectic.  He also neglected to mention that the introduction to live music for the kids included: Star Wars at the Hollywood Bowl; The Legend of Zelda Symphony 2; Final Fantasy Symphony.  We intend to raise GOOD nerds.

 

Sarah McLachlan -- 9 times between solo shows, Lilith and a KROQ event

 

Next, acts I've seen more than three times:

Joe Satriani -- I'm cheating a bit because I've seen /just/ him three times, but I've also seen him at two different tribute events, one Hendrix and one in honor of Les Paul's 90th birthday

Live

They Might Be Giants

Steve Miller Band

 

Bands or performers I have seen thrice:

Natalie Merchant (probably; twice for sure)

Sheryl Crow (again twice for certain)

Rush

Foreigner

Chickenfoot

Peter Gabriel

 

Twice as nice:

A Prairie Home Companion (Garrison twice, Martin Sheen both times, different musical guests)

Billy Joel

Sting

Indigo Girls

Chris Isaak

Emmylou Harris

B.B. King

Dream Theater

Blind Boys of Alabama

George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic

Butterfly Boucher

Steve Vai (accidentally)

Slash (also accidentally)

Jethro Tull

Styx

Yes

Kansas

Heart

Def Leppard

The B-52's

The Fixx

Zappa Plays Zappa

Return To Forever

Night Ranger

Brian Setzer Orchestra

Everclear

Ian Anderson

Cheap Trick

Pat Benatar

Seal

Missing Persons

Primus

War

Tower of Power

Leonard Cohen

Only been there once:

The Eagles

The Bangles

Stevie Nicks

Fleetwood Mac

Annie Lennox

Eurythmics

Young Dubliners

Queen + Paul Rodgers

Los Lobos

Crosby, Stills & Nash

Eric Johnson

Edwin McCain

The Alan Parsons LIVE Project

Fish

Frank Black

The Police

Rammstein

KMFDM

Lords of Acid

N.E.R.D.

Black Eyed Peas

U2

Gorillaz

Moby

Madeleine Peyroux

Single Gun Theory

Tori Amos

Poe

Fiona Apple

Sinead O'Connor

Garbage

No Doubt

The Pretenders

Joan Osborne

Tracey Chapman

Ciba Matto

Sixpence None the Richer

Blind Melon

Public Image Limited

Big Audio Dynamite

Jane's Addiction

Nine Inch Nails

Vanilla Ice

Young M.C.

Tone Loc

Biz Markie

Poison

Suzanne Vega

Billy Idol

Living Colour

Elton John

Counting Crows

Michael Franti and Spearhead

Asia

Pearl Jam             (and Chris Cornell for the encore, doing Hunger Strike)

Peter, Bjorn and John

Depeche Mode

Negativland

Opeth

Between the Buried and Me

Scale The Summit

Bigelf

Macy Gray

Collective Soul

Blues Traveler

Queensryche

The Psychedelic Furs

Sweet

Twisted Sister

Devo

Blondie

ZZ Top

REO Speedwagon

The Cult

Modern English

Skid Row

Ratt

Prince

Carole King

James Taylor

Eric Clapton

Steve Winwood

Simon & Garfunkel

Stray Cats

Sugar Ray

Eddie Money

Joan Jett & the Blackhearts

Jenni Rivera

Paramore

Miranda Lambert

Average White Band

Edgar Winter

Chick Corea

Abe Laboriel Sr.

Alex Acuna

Justo Almario

Victor Wooten

Dave Matthews Band

Butt Trumpet

Philip Glass

Brian Culbertson

Kenny G[h]

Roger Waters

Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis

Zapp

Confunkshun

Cameo

Bow Wow Wow

INXS

Blue Oyster Cult

Marcy Playground

Dramarama

Sir Mix-A-Lot

Berlin

The Human League

Santana

Journey

Ponderosa

The Cure

The Silent Comedy

Fishbone

Final Fantasy: Music from Distant Worlds

Legend of Zelda: Symphony of the Goddesses

Weird Al Yankovic

Joe Walsh

Toto

MC Hammer

Gin Blossoms

Brynn Marie

Cyndi Lauper

Doobie Brothers

Sponge

Filter

Boothby Graffoe

Guster

Ben Folds Five

Barenaked Ladies

Ian Anderson

[dr3wcifer]

 

Wideeyed by a Landslide!

[girljen]

Oh, not too many:

 

Jackson 5

Supertramp

Emerson, Lake and Palmer

Rolling Stones

 

Haha

 

*dies of pure jealous rage*

........................!

*miraculously cardioverts upon hitting the floor*

YOU WIN AT LIVE MUSIC. SRSLY.  The first thing I will do when I can finally afford that time machine is go back and see the Jackson 5.

Dammit.

[Duality]

Sum 41 with No Warning and The Black Maria (Feburary 2005)

 

Disturbed with All that Remains, Skindred, Art of Dying (May 2009)

 

The Rolling Stones with Our Lady Peace, The Tragically Hip and Les Trois Accords (September 2005)

 

I'm extremly overdue for a concert as you can see. I've been to a LOT of local band concerts though.

[Maledictus]

Hey NF community; as a music lover I thought this would be a good idea to see the diversity of music fans on the forums (and if anyone had similar intrests) So, what bands have you seen/going to see/ or plan on seeing?

 

 

ooh, going back to 1987 or so ...

 

Faith No More (on their first UK tour, in a place about as big as my front room)

Motorhead

Metallica (about 15 times or so)

Anthrax

Slayer

Sabbat

Manowar

Lawnmower Deth

Zodiac Mindwarp and the Love Reaction

Dropkick Murphys

AC DC

Alice Cooper

Yamato Drum Orchestra

Motley Crue

Engine (local band)

Acid Reign

Xentrix

The Macc Lads

Suicidal Tendencies

Testament

Exodus

... many many more I was too drunk to remember.

there seems to be a common theme in most of those.

[Thrillho]

Clutch (three times)

Big Sugar (six times)

Wierd Al

Death From Above 1979

Everclear

Mayfield Four (on their very first tour! AKA, Myles Kennedy's first band)

Cancer Bats

Three Inches Of Blood

54-40 (three times)

Royal Crown Revue

Hayes Carll 

Corb Lund (twice)

Tim Hus (twice)

John Evans Band

Arrogant Worms (three times)

Great Big Sea

Barenaked Ladies

Lionize (twice)

GWAR

The Smalls (on their last tour)

The Tragically Hip (20 years ago, 10 years ago, and this year)

 

ALSO Sounds Of The Underground 2007, Edgefest 97, Snowjob 98. 

[mom2sjm]

Madonna

Level 42

Monsters of Rock Tour (Van Halen, Scorpions, Metallica, Dokken, Kingdom Come)

Steve Miller Band

Jimmy Buffet (twice)

U2 (twice)

Black Happy

Rush (twice)

Elton John

 

[DanMellor]

Alestorm (a few pints with Danny too)

KISS

Metallica

Machine Head

Mastodon

Joe Bonamassa

Devil Driver

[OrangeJorwell]

I'm digging all the ska fans.

 

Ska

Mustard Plug (x3)

Streetlight Manifesto (x2)

Toh Kay

The Toasters (One of the best shows I've ever seen, despite them all being like 55)

 

Classic Rock

Rush

Yes

Asia

Blue Oyster Cult

Foreigner

Tom Petty

 

Rock

Barenaked Ladies

Blues Traveler

Trans-Siberian Orchestra (x2)

Rusted Root (Free show: Send Me On My Way really is their only good song)

Cake (Just walking past the stage at SummerFest in Milwaukee and they were playing so I stuck around)

 

 

Next week I'm going to see Barenaked Ladies, Ben Folds Five and Guster.

[Raikas]

I try to go to at least 3 festivals every year, so I actually don't remember all the names of the bands I've seen live!  Just counting non-festivals though, I think in the past 5 years or so I've seen:

 

VNV Nation

Straftanz

Rammstein

Combichrist

Paul Simon

Joan Baez

U2

Interpol

NERD

Rihanna

Kanye West

Lupe Fiasco

 

I also go to a lot of classical concerts and operas, but I guess that's part of the answer to a live music question that doesn't have "band" in the title, right?  Although honestly one of the best concerts I went to in 2011 was the Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra and countertenor Daniel Taylor doing Vivaldi, so hey.  And do DJs count?  That would add to it as well.

[AlterStephen]

Mayfield Four (on their very first tour! AKA, Myles Kennedy's first band)

I love these guys! But Myles Kennedy's first band was actually a jazz fusion group called Cosmic Dust, followed by another band called Citizen Swing. The Mayfield Four came after those.

[MissyMo87]

James Brown

Pink

Godsmack

Dio (with Jimmy Page was on guitar for this one)

Deep Purple

Judas Priest (with Rob Halford)

Scorpions

Breaking Benjamin

Cold

Mudvaynex2

Kornx4

Disturbed

Sevendust

Skindred

Drowning Pool

Ozzy Osbourne

Rob Zombie x2 (Once with Joey Jordison)

Atreyu

Hatebreed

Five Finger Death Punch

Soil

Murder FM

Black Label Society

10 years x2

 

 

I think I'm forgetting some

[Thrillho]

I love these guys! But Myles Kennedy's first band was actually a jazz fusion group called Cosmic Dust, followed by another band called Citizen Swing. The Mayfield Four came after those.

I remembered Citizen Swing, did not know Cosmic Dust. Ok, "first-ish" band?

[NukaCola]

This is a second post I can live with. Musical taste is fairly eclectic, and I'm sure I'm forgetting about plenty as these are all off the top of my head (and some of these may have been from working the events):

 

Phish 

Dave Matthews Band

Umphrey's Mcgee

Trey Anastasio Band

Mastodon

Between the Buried and Me

Baroness

The Flaming Lips

Vampire Weekend

Beach House

Ben Folds Five

moe.

Tool

Keller Williams

Soulive

Radiohead

Kermit Ruffins

Irma Thomas

The Meters

Ben Harper

Pearl Jam

Michael Franti

Counting Crows

G. Love and Special Sauce

Medeski, Martin & Wood

Primus

The Slip

As Tall as Lions

Muse

The Dear Hunter

The Receiving End of Sirens

Widespread Panic

String Cheese Incident

Galactic

Rebirth Brass Band

Circa Survive

Bela Fleck and the Flecktones

Jason Aldean

Dashboard Confessional

BB King

Susan Tedeschi

Derek Trucks Band

George Porter Jr Band

Rascal Flats

Allman Brothers Band

Average White Band

Tower of Power

Reel Big Fish

 

Alright I'm bored of typing. Most notable bands I haven't seen that I really need to see (and soon, because, well...): Stones, Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, Roger Waters

[porchcricket13]

This is a second post I can live with. Musical taste is fairly eclectic, and I'm sure I'm forgetting about plenty as these are all off the top of my head (and some of these may have been from working the events):

 

Phish 

Dave Matthews Band

Umphrey's Mcgee

Trey Anastasio Band

Mastodon

Between the Buried and Me

Baroness

The Flaming Lips

Vampire Weekend

Beach House

Ben Folds Five

moe.

Tool

Keller Williams

Soulive

Radiohead

Kermit Ruffins

Irma Thomas

The Meters

Ben Harper

Pearl Jam

Michael Franti

Counting Crows

G. Love and Special Sauce

Medeski, Martin & Wood

Primus

The Slip

As Tall as Lions

Muse

The Dear Hunter

The Receiving End of Sirens

Widespread Panic

String Cheese Incident

Galactic

Rebirth Brass Band

Circa Survive

Bela Fleck and the Flecktones

Jason Aldean

Dashboard Confessional

BB King

Susan Tedeschi

Derek Trucks Band

George Porter Jr Band

Rascal Flats

Allman Brothers Band

Average White Band

Tower of Power

Reel Big Fish

 

Alright I'm bored of typing. Most notable bands I haven't seen that I really need to see (and soon, because, well...): Stones, Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, Roger Waters

 

Loving your list, heading to Jones beach and merriweather this weekend for phish.

[jediokie]

Stryper (I was in junior high)

 

Alice in Chains

 

Nixons

 

Flaming Lips

 

Tom Petty

 

Season to Risk

Fugazi

 

Offspring

Tilt

Green Day

 

The Cure

 

If they're grouped it was the same concert.